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Happy New Year everyone, we are stoked to kick things off with a newly re-vamped Robotic Empire – Online Store including a new release, a mountain of crazy sales, a special test press and more. Let’s get into it:

First and foremost, FLOOR‘s seminal Self-Titled album has been reissued as a standalone 12″ with a bonus 7″ containing outtakes from the album session. Originally assembled as part of the extensive Below & Beyond box set discography a few years back, we are supremely stoked for one of our top favorite albums of all time to be made available once again in a morewidespread manner.

Keeping in mind the original vision for the LP along with appropriate upgrades to reflect the expanded nature of this killer release, FLOOR‘s landmark album (to date) has been reissued in a gatefold jacket with silver color added throughout, and custom glue-pocket to house the bonus 7″. A high quality digital download is now also included, containing the full album and bonus tracks.

To add icing to the cake for like-minded diehard fans, we’ve worked with the band and our bros at Decibel Magazine to craft a limited deluxe “Hall of Fame” edition of the album with further printwork (including full printed lyrics for the first time ever), some rare and never before seen photos, a full transcription of the Decibel feature on the album, plus a cloth patch and weatherproof sticker.

We’ve done our best to make this reissue the definitive version of what we consider to be an incredibly groundbreaking album. For those unfamiliar with FLOOR‘s first proper full-length release, it is a magnificent merging of the best elements from “heavy” to “catchy”. With the monumental “bomb string” in tow, an unlikely but amazing combination of incredibly deep-tuned doom rock, sing-along harmonized vocals, a bombastic rhythm and pop sensibilities all set FLOOR apart from contemporaries. Nothing before or after has truly compared to this brilliant monolith of a thunderous-yet-soaring doom sludge pop rock hybrid. Laying the bedrock for what would come years later with TORCHE, the self-titled FLOOR album was and is the stuff of legends.

Thankfully the posthumous legacy created by their massive recordings has revived activity into the band, and Robotic Empire is honored to finally present this amazing release for availability once again.

A limited run of 500 were made as the deluxe “Hall of Fame” edition on silver/blue vinyl, and for the standard edition 300 were pressed on clear vinyl, 300 on electric blue and 900 on black.

With a stunning new album not far from release, it’s been amazing to see FLOOR rise again and we’re beyond thrilled to make the S/T album available again. The deluxe edition is $19.99 and the standard edition $16.99

Semi-related via guitar player/vocalist Steve Brooks’ continuation of innovative heavy and catchy music, we’re also re-launching the Robotic Empire – Online Store with the In Return 10″+CD dropped to $11.99 (until the end of January only) to commeorate all this awesome activity. This includes all color varieties so if you’ve not picked up this recent repress, now’s the time:

Another catalog Robo release that we’re happy to have available again, is the overrun copies of PG.99‘s Singles 12″ that we pressed a few years back to coincide with their reunion shows. We had some extra vinyl and jackets, but no printed innersleeves… but thanks to our brethren at Seattle’s Broken Press, we’ve got some super nice double-sided silkscreened inserts to round out the release. About 70 copies were run in this manner, and include a small silkscreened “Girl With Heart” image print as well.

So while we’re seriously stoked to have those cool new offerings for the re-launch of our Online Store, the true meat of this update lies in the absolutely stupidly hugely unwieldy MASSIVE sale we’ve now got going on the site.

Although our store is continuously being updated (forgive some wonky bits), along with altering the store in multiple ways over the past month we’ve done a lengthy inventory overhaul of all the distro items we carry. Some gems were found, a few duds, a bunch of rare old stuff, a few weird ones and just generally a LOT of items we didn’t realise were kicking around have now been added back to the site, typically in very small quantities.

Most of the old stuff has been CRAZY discounted (including about 50 different LPs priced at 99 cents?!) to get it out of our doors and into your homes so peep this mega list of 420 sale items now up on our Online Store:

GAWWDAYUM! We’ve run some crazy sales in the past, but this one may take the cake. Get em while they’re hot, and/or if you’re a fan of other formats we’re also offering up the following equally insane sales:

* All cassettes (aside from a few new Robo releases) are $2.99 until the end of January – this excludes the bangin new MUTOID MAN tape we dropped, and the recent THOU tape re-presses.

* All 7″s are $2.99 until the end of January – excluding a small handful of items we can’t discount that much, the vast majority of 7″s we carry are dirt cheap (classic punx price) for TWO WEEKS ONLY!

* ALL CDs ARE 99 CENTS – we are blowing out the distro CDs, likely for good. Do you have a car stereo? LOAD UP. Do you have an iPod/iPhone/MyPad/whatever? RIPS AHOY. Are you killeroldschool and just crank CDs hard? LUCKY DAY. This sale runs until the our CDs stocks are gone… PEACE OUT!

So that’s it. We’ve lost our minds. Honestly though, we have a seriously small area for the boatloads of stock we have and need to clear it out to make room for a very busy 2014. Although formal announcements have yet to be made (so this is the sneaky earlybird heads up), beyond the aforementioned FLOOR reissue, we also need to drum up cash for the absolutely killer new releases on deck from the likes of THOU, TILTS, JAKOB, plus *hopefully* JESU‘s Ascension 2LP, ideally some PYGMYLUSH stuff, and the long long long awaited vinyl pressing of THE SACRIFICE POLES album. The Nirvana tribute comp is actually at the mastering stage now (!!), and once our artwork is wrapped up the longest running project the label’s dragged feet on will finnnalllllly see the light of day. Which is cool, because it really did turn out awesome in the end – such a mission to do it all legit though.

Looks like we’re rambling, so time to go. Please buy something from our revamped Online Store. We celebrate our 15th anniversary as a “record label” in April of this year and it’s honestly kinda crazy sometimes that we’re still in operation, given how seriously weird our business operates and what’s happened to most of our peers.

We truly rely on our amazing mailorder followers, so a genuine and heartfelt thank you is due to everyone who’s supported us in the past – and a thank you in advance for those picking something up now.

We’ve got a wicked variety of cool stuff for this update, including one item which we’re incredibly jealous (and mildly frustrated) NOT to have been a part of. After years of harassing HUM about letting us reissue their incredible catalog, Shop Radio Cast beat everyone (including the band) to the punch. The resulting proof is in the pudding though, as their reissue of You’d Prefer An Astronaut really did turn out nice, along with the reissue treatment for two bangin QUICKSAND 12″s.

Beyond the special attention to that stuff, there are many other high-calibre items here including new items from CONVERGE, HOAX, JK FLESH, LOMA PRIETA, IN LOVING MEMORY, MAGIC CIRCLE, plus splits from TRIAC / D.O.C., TOUCHE AMORE / PBTT, DROPDEAD x2 and, YEAR OF NO LIGHT / ALTAR OF PLAGUES, plus imports aplenty from Vendetta/Adagio and some other choice stuff.